Formula 1 2025 - Chinese Grand Prix

And the weekend started so well with Hamilton's sprint victory (https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/hamilton-storms-to-sprint-victory-and-first-ferrari-win-in-china-ahead-of.2VzfSIOQeFC6y2Kskxkpz9)

Just a note, Ferrari victories still don't make sprint races a good idea.

But I didn't get my hopes up because I have been *here* before. And I was wise not to because ...

Ferrari somehow managed to get both their cars disqualified, which is a special kind of ridiculousness (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cn0j7gvnk89o).

I can, to an extent, forgive the Leclerc disqualification, because there is a chance it was related to how the car drove after losing it's front wing end-plate. Which was knocked off in a collision with his teammate ... and whose loss improved performance.

Meanwhile, the undamaged car got pinged for having undersized skid blocks!

How do you miss something like that?!!!

I hate being a Ferrari fan sometimes.

(I have learnt my lesson from the BBC taking the Chinese Grand Prix off the Sounds app after less than two weeks and will be listening to the Japanese Grand Prix replay tomorrow.)

3 Sentence Fics 2025 - Fills to my prompts

Prompt: Any fandom, any character, "same time next year?"
Fills:
Sandman, Dream & Hob by wingedflight
Meeting Adjourned (original) by kalira
Transformers G1, Hot Rod & OC by apprentice_lurk
All Elite Wrestling, Nigel McGuinness & Zack Sabre Jr. by d_generate_girl


Prompt: any, any, we found love in a hopeless place (with apologies if this has already been prompted)
Fills: Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa+Max (Furiosa/Max maybe) by last_haven

3 Sentence Fics 2025 - My fills

Not including that one Snake Eyes fill I just could not get to work in 3 sentences. I have 2 different 4 sentence versions and it's oh so frustrating.

Prompt: any fandom with a high-technology setting, any, sword & sorcery AU
Fill: To Seek Out New Civilisations (Star Trek: TNG, gen)
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Prompt: any, any, struggling against muscle memory
Fill: Made To Measure, Kurogane, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle (Spoilers)
( Fill (small spoilers for Ceres onwards) )

Prompt: mcu, any, sponsor
Fill: A Word From Our Sponsor, Nick Fury gen
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Prompt: Any fandom with a late-20th-century setting, any characters, “It's about the Marshmallow Incident; and the Filing Cabinet Incident; and also the Volkswagen Beetle Parked On Top of the Fountain in the Fucking Lily Pond Incident.”
Fill: There are reasons (X-Men gen) (like I could help it given that prompt)
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Prompt: any, any, that intermediate level of language proficiency where you can pretty much get your point across but sometimes the way you phrase things is bizarre
Fill: Old-fashioned (Star Trek Reboot verse, Uhura and McCoy gen)
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Prompt: any, any, David Attenborough narrates a nature documentary involving AUV Boaty McBoatface
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Let's be honest, every British child of my gen can do a David Attenborough impression.

Prompt: Dune (any version), Liet Kynes, paths not taken
Fill: Family Tree (Miniseries version in my head)
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Prompt: Any, any, toxic yuri selfcest
Fill (and long explanation): It's always you and me, always and forever (AEW, Toni Storm / Mariah May)
I realised while writing why it fits the prompt and looks like it doesn't if you're not following this storyline. For those not into wrestling, Toni Storm returned as a Norma Desmond type character. Mariah May appeared, and it all went significantly All About Eve [complete with TCM intro and Ben Mankiewicz voice-overs]. Both of them have canonically dressed up as each other, and the resemblance is uncanny.)
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Prompt: Star Trek, any, the difference between theory and practice
Fill: The Wrong Button, Reboot Verse Scotty fic
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Inspired by this fill upthread - https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/5186.html?thread=11086146#cmt11086146

Prompt: LOTR, Boromir, I can see no way, I can see no way
Fill: Bereft of Hope
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